England v New Zealand Test Series 2026

[Durhamfootman]

Kiwi's are motoring now

73 off the last 10 overs

England are screwed

hopefully Key and McCullum are fooked

[Durhamfootman]

and despite Bash bowling a third of all overs bowled, England are still 25 overs away from stumps... which will take them to 7pm

If this had been last week with 4 seamers, England would have probably have only bowled 55 overs by 5pm

[sussexpob]

300/0....

[sussexpob]

Finally ...Stokes gets Latham

[sussexpob]

When it rains it pours... Root gets Conway

[Durhamfootman]

They'll run through them now.... and at 5.40pm they still have 15 overs to make NZ pay

[Arthur Crabtree]

NZ openers insufficiently ruthless.

[sussexpob]

Archer has bowled 10 out of 80 overs.... just frankly unacceptable.

He comes on now. Smacks Nicholls in the head..... I can hear somewhere Steve Smith muttering "what a champ" under his breath.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Only England could bowl 25 overs of spin, and still be 10 overs short at the scheduled close.

[sussexpob]

Only England could bowl 25 overs of spin, and still be 10 overs short at the scheduled close.

The annoying thing about this is the umpires do absolutely nothing to speed up play. This afternoon when Atkinson came back on for a spell, I think there was about a 3 minute delay between overs where the game completely stopped, and for no real reason.

[Arthur Crabtree]

It's hot and they've been hit around... but even so, that's slow going.

[sussexpob]

Atkinson gets Ravindra just before the close to add a tiny sliver of respectability to the day

[Arthur Crabtree]

NZ losing their way a bit. Less positive and losing wickets.

[sussexpob]

2 wickets in two balls, Nicholls now goes....

New ball this evening showing just how badly England bowled today.

[Arthur Crabtree]

NZ will want to bat most of tomorrow's heatwave, so that looks less likely now.